everything is derivative.

David Fontaine wrote:

> moonshadow wrote:
>
> > >SWEET!!!!
> >
> > Thanks :) I'm still not sure this is a totally original idea though.
> > That's why I posted, I'm sure someone has come up with the same idea.
>
> [snip]
> Sorry, here I must vehemently protest.
>
> Alright, even if it was completely original, a lot of the beauty came
> simply from math. Yes, I'm a believer in all that mathematical crap with
> Benoit Mandlebrot and whatnot. But still you deserve credit for either
> tweaking it or stumbling across it.
> The thing is, in today's world, with 6 (or is it 7 now?) billion people
> and 5000 years of recorded history, almost always someone else did it
> before you. Especially in the last decade we now have the technology to
> immediately tell the world we did it first. Does that mean you deserve
> less credit because you did it second? Hardly. That's just chronolgical
> bias. Now if it was some sort of major discovery that impacted the world,
> like electricity, maybe the first person gets some "extra credit". But in
> art it becomes more questionable.
>
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